Pharmacy History
APC secures FIP Seal Award
The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) is the first pharmacy accreditation agency to receive the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Seal award The Seal was designed to provide quality assurance for pharmacy …
A year of promise
February 1923: Pharmacy is predicted to have a ‘year of promise’, while an AJP report revealed the profession’s ‘nepo babies’ and controversy continued over the sale of medicated wines “Pharmacists …
A blow for pharmacy, and patients
December 1972: Pharmacy suffers a defeat in its campaign to limit the number of analgesics distribution outlets. Meanwhile, the Guild modernises its leadership structure Pharmacy was delivered “an unexpected blow …
Pharmacy training spawned world-beating literary career
New biography of the 20th century’s most read novelist shows how poisons knowledge inspired her tales of murder and mystery Agatha Christie is claimed to be the best-selling novelist in …
Closing time chaos
August 1922: Arguments rage over compulsory six o’clock closing times, with pharmacists charged for defying the rule “Spirited controversy” had arisen in the Victorian press over the question of the …
Your druggist is more than a merchant
March 1922: Australian pharmacists are encouraged to develop new promotional slogans. Meanwhile concerns are expressed over pharmacies using poor quality paper Australian pharmacists needed to work together to promote their …
Federation for pharmacy
February 1947: there’s moves afoot to form a federal council of state pharmaceutical societies. But will anything happen? There was a push on to form a federal body to unify …
1972: the future lies in professional services
February 1972: deteriorating trading conditions lead to calls for a ‘professional fee’ to ensure the future of pharmacies In an AJP article looking at ‘History and the Professional Fee‘, pharmacist …
The regulatory dilemma
November 1946, and in the aftermath of World War 2, regulators are wondering what to do with the wonder drug, Penicillin, while pharmacists call for national legislative uniformity Meanwhile, pharmacy …
Tonics: what’s in a name?
Pharmacy historian Ralph Tapping takes a look at the long, and sometimes dubious, history of products labelled as ‘tonics’ Through the past couple of centuries, mankind has always been looking …
The ‘Revolution Bug’
September 1971: Change is in the air within the pharmacy profession Calls for change were everywhere in the September 1971 edition of the AJP There were calls for “revolution” to …
Pharmacy suffers from rabbit poison sale
July 1921: Did the Pharmacy Board approve a shopkeeper’s sales of cheap strychnine, harming pharmacists ‘in the public estimation’? The July 1921 edition of AJP included a report on “an …